Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog

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From	Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject	Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog
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On 12/26/2012 6:44 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Sometimes, one sees example programs in recent Java books where
>    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog or JOptionPane.showInputDialog
>    is used outside of the EDT.
>
>    So, is this good practice?
>
>    On
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JOptionPane.html
>
>    , I do not find remarks about those methods being thread safe.
>

I looked at the source for JOptionPane and I don't see anything in there 
that would lead me to believe that you could invoke it safely on other 
than the EDT.

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Knute Johnson

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Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-26 22:03 -0800
  Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-27 10:23 -0500
    Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-27 09:06 -0800
      Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-27 16:16 -0500
    Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-27 16:34 -0500
      Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-29 10:38 -0500
        Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-31 12:00 -0800

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